Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-12-04
order: "Bring me six bottles
Uf champagne and six glass. !"

| ORDER: bring me SIX bottles
of champagne and six glass. ;
A peasant who was considered 6
great man by his townsmen, had en-
tered and heard the order. De
termined not to let his glory fade
before the lustre of the strangers, he
irned to the waiter and in a loud and
pompous tone eaid: "Six bottles o.
champagne and one glass" His
order and his astonishing feat Of
drinking nearly all the champagne
raised him nightly in the estimation
Of his admirers.
The great champagne firm mas It's
department OF still wines conducted
by experts in that branch of the trade,
who will tell you the age and pedi.
gree of wine by tasting it. They will
tell you that Americans ave making
comparatively slow progress in learn.
ing to drink excessive still wines, and
that champagne is not after all the
most expensive of vinous drinks
Clarets and Rhine wines at So a
bottle are sold in considerable quanti-
ties, and Giovanni Morosini, Mr..
Gould's right hand man who is not a
wine drink-r himself, but keeps a
well-stocked cellar, has some OF that
pecul arly rich brand of Italian wine,
known as Chianti, which is almost
worth its weight in gold. The average
New York wine-frm occasionally
sends young man to France
to perfect him in the
study of his business.
One of these has just returned, and he
states that the champagne and still
wine product of the present season is
less in quantity, but probably better
in quality than that of last year. The
French wine growers are slowly learn
ing the value of a certain application
about the vines as a protection against
mildew, and nearly every vine
yard where this was not used
proved a failure this year. The young
agent made the astonishing discovery
that the people in the cham
payne district drink very little cham
payne. The Frenchman and German
Usually preferred red vine, and to
meet the demand one firm is produc-
ing what it calls ruby champagne.
There are some royal wine drinkers
in New York. One of these is young
man who may be seen occasionally at
the fashionable cafe, and who is point
ed out by the epicures as the person
who inherited Sam Wards stock OF old
liquors. Pat Gilmore, the famous mu-
steal director, never drinks anything
but champagne, and he is con-
sidered one OF the best judges Of it in
New York There is a modest little
restaurant on one of the cross town
streets of the city, whose proprietor is
courted by friends who long for tar t.
of his private stock of Burgundy, and
who envy him because he has heen
able to drink it all his life without
getting the govt.
The association of epicures known
as the Terrapin Club are constantly
on the lookout for choice Madeira
which they use in cooking their
feasts of diamond backs. Recently a
member found five bottles of it in an
old wine shop in a cheap quarter Of
the city. The place had changed
hands, and the new proprietor was
asked what he would take for the
liquor. He was getting $3.50 bottle
for his Madeira and he gladly sold the
epicure the five bottles at that price
When he discovered it was some
choice old wine worth at least IS a
bottle, he tried in vain to annul the
bargain.-[Savannah News.